Anita Manfredi got nine massages and 18 mud baths at a luxury spa in November. The French government paid two-thirds of the $1,022 bill. “The treatment has done me a lot of good,” says Manfredi, a French retiree who suffers from arthritis and enjoys a three-week retreat at the southern spa town of Dax every year. “I no longer have flare-ups.”

Also homeopathic remedies they receive. Also, inexpensive.
And you can't count infant deaths because we count ours differently.

And now, because it's failing:

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France’s health system now requires doctors to reduce the number of drugs they prescribe ...